Danièle Delorme: Rare woman director muse and pioneering female movie producer also featured in blockbuster bigger than Star Wars.
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Glenda Jackson: Labour MP and 2-Time Best Actress Oscar Winner will return to acting after two decades in British politics.
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Simone Simon: La Bête Humaine (1938) Deadly Sex Kitten in 1 of Jean Renoir’s most known films. Off screen, she romanced real-life James Bond.
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Oldest person in movies: Manoel de Oliveira. Oldest person in movies? Following the recent passing of 1931 Dracula actress Carla Laemmle at age 104, there is one less movie centenarian…
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Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh: Legendary ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ star would have turned 100 today Vivien Leigh was perhaps the greatest film star that hardly…
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Beautiful Disaster acquired by Warner Bros. The film rights to Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster, (initially) a self-published novel, has been acquired by Warner Bros. McGuire’s story has been described as…
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Jean Gabin was France’s answer to Humphrey Bogart, many (English-language) historians have claimed. Either that, or Gabin was France’s answer to Spencer Tracy. Never mind the fact that Gabin was…
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Michael Gough, whose only important role in his 60-year career – if news reports are to be believed – seems to have been that of Batman’s butler in Tim Burton’s…
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Luise Rainer Remembers the Oscars, Greta Garbo and Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway, adding that Julia Roberts and The King’s Speech are faves.
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Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge with Robert Taylor. Who is Vivien Leigh? If you don’t know and has access to Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. or Canada, you can…
Luise Rainer Dead: At 104 years old first Two-Time Oscar Winner in the acting categories was oldest surviving Academy Award recipient.
Actress Paulette Dubost, known as the “Dean of French Cinema,” and a performer in films directed by Jean Renoir, Marcel L’Herbier, Jacques Tourneur, Julien Duvivier, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, François…
Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld. Luise Rainer Movies Directed by Sidney Franklin, The Good Earth (1937) is on right now as Turner Classic Movies’ first film presentation of an…